Eight days in the Mosquitia Jungle - April 3-11, 2009

On the northeast coast of Honduras is an area of protected rain forest and an indigenous people group everyone seems to have forgotten perhaps because it is so hard to get there.

One must travel by small plane or boat, and dugout canoe. The plane ride was one hour from the capital city of Tegucigalpa to the coastal town of La Ceiba on a commercial carrier and another hour on the small plane ultimately, landing in the Patuca River village of Wampu Sirpe. From there, boarding a dugout canoe traveling on the Patuca for another three hours up river, arriving at the village of Kurpa.

The photos of Bruce preaching are in a church in Kurpa on Palm Sunday.

"People need Jesus," says Bruce. " I cannot think of another reason worth the effort of getting out there... worth enduring the bugs and poor conditions... worth the dangers of travel in small planes and boats through areas of little traffic and slim hope of rescue. People need Jesus. The sad part is that it's dependent on us... someone must be willing to go and tell them of The Truth."

Romans 10:15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!